Reel.



A. P. RIETZEL.

REEL.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14, 1910.

Patented Jan.6,1914.

IN VEN TOR. ,J A 5 77?;

By 623% ATTORNEYS,

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH F. RIETZEL, 03F CHARLEST OWN, RHODE ISIAND, ASSIGN'QB T WALLACE H. ROWE, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

REEL.

Patented'J-an. 6, 1914. Serial No. 549,205.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ADOLPH F. RIETZEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Charlestown, in the county of Washington and State of vented certain new and useful Improve ments in Reels, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to the conas used for holding barbed or other wire or for struction of reels such and shipping other purposes and more particularly relates to such reels when constructed of metal.

The object of my invention is to provide a reel which will require less metal than reels of types heretofore employed and which will therefore be cheaper to construct and lighter in weight but at the same time will be capable of carrying great weight without danger of collapse.

The object is further to provide a reel which will be proof against fire and rough handling and which will take up less space in storage than is required by reels of constructions heretofore employed.

A further object is to so construct the reel that the process of electric welding may be employed in its manufacture, thus cheapening its cost of construction and providing an integral structure whereby great strength is attained.

A still further object of the invention in its preferred form, is to make the various parts from sheet metal and to provide various reinforcing devices to strengthen the same.

The invention consists in the novel construction" of reel hereinafter more particularly described and then specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation of one form of reel constructed in accordance with my present invention and shows the parts before welding. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan View. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the reel after the parts have been welded together. Fig. 5 is an end elevation of another form of reel constructed in accordance with this invention.

The side members or arms of the reel each preferably consist of buta single plate orstrip of metal 1 to which the body portion or drum of the reel is secured. The strips or plates 1, forming the reel arms,

are preferably trough- Rhode Island, have inor channel-shaped in cross-section and by preference formed by bendingthe longitudinal edges of strips or plates of sheet metal to form side flanges, thereby greatly stiffening the plates, although the arms might be otherwise formed if desired.

The plates or arms 1 are provided with an opening 2 through the base of the channel at or about the middle thereof and which provides for the insertion of the usual supporting spindle commonly employed to sustain the reel when winding or unwinding the wire. The body of the reel or the drum portion, upon which the wire is wound consists of a plurality of bars or lengths of metal disposed about the axis of the reel and welded at their ends to the arms 1.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the body portion consists of lengths or plates of metal 3 having longitudinal troughs formed therein in any "convenient manner. The troughs may extend the entire length of the plates 3 or, as shown, may stop short of the ends and the members terminate at each end in a flat portion which is welded to the arms 1 in any desired manner. Preferably, the troughshaped members or plates are secured by welding them to the side flanges of the arms 1 by means of welding projections or nibs of localized area 4 struck up from the abutting surfaces of the arms 1 and plates 3. The parts are assembled together with the projections 4 in contact bet-ween suitable current carrying electrodes, the current passing from one to the other and pressure applied thereto to complete the weld, all as well understood by those skilled in the electric welding art. I do not limit myself to any particular method of electrically welding the parts together and in utilizing welding projections to localize the area of initial contact it will be understood that they might be provided in any desired way and might be formed on either or both of the parts to be welded.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the body portion is formed of two plates, one on either side of the arms 1 and each plate provided with two parallel longitudinal troughs while in the form shown in Fig. 5 each trough is formed in separate plates or strips forming bars terminating in flat port-ions and secured. to the arms as above described.

It will be understood that What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a metal reel, reel arms each consisting of a single channel-shaped strip of metal and a reel body comprising metal plates having longitudinal troughs formed therein and Welded to the sides of said channelshaped arms.

2. In a metal reel, reel arms each consisting of a single metal plate having side flanges and a reel body comp-rising metal plates having longitudinal troughs formed therein and Welded by their face to the flanges of said arms.

3. In a metal reel, reel arms each consisting of a single metal plate having side flanges and a reel body comprising metal plates having longitudinal troughs and Welded by their face to the face of said flanges.

4. In a metal reel, reel arms each c0nsist ing of a single channel-shaped piece of metal and a reel body comprlsing a pair of plates Welded to the sides of said channel-shaped arms, said plates being provided With longitudinally disposed parallel troughs formed therein.

Signed at Stonington in the county of New London andState of Conn. this 9th day of March A. D. 1910.

ADOLPH F. RIETZEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. i 

